Containing device.



PATENTED DEC. 5, 1905.

vNo. 806,595.

G. STEGK. CONTAINING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 16, 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT onmon- GEORGE STEOK, or WAUPUN, Wisconsin."

CONTAINING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 5, 1905.

Application filed January 16, 1905. Serial No. 241,314.

pro'vements in Containing Devices, ofwhich the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to a containing device adapted particularly foruse in making coffee or tea. T

In using coflfee or tea pots it is necessary generally to employ astrainer attached to the mouth thereof to prevent the exit of the coffeeor tea dregs.

The object of this invention is to make coffee or tea in such mannerthat the same is free from dregs, for which reasonthe-necessity ofemploying a strainer at the spout of the cofiee or tea pot is avoided. 1

With the foregoing and other minor objects in View, which will appear asthe description proceeds, the invention resides in a containing deviceformed with a perforate body having novel means for holding the same inproper position within a coffee or tea pot.

The invention also resides in the particular combination and arrangementof parts and in the precise details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed as a practical embodiment thereof. In theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is aperspective view of the containing device constructed in accordance withthe invention.

vided at its upper end with a removable cap or cover 2. Surrounding'thebody 1 is a retaining-band 3, theends of which preferably. are drawncloselytogether and joined bymeans of a link 1. A plurality of angularor bent arms 5 are pivotally connected intermediate their ends to thebody 1. The pivotal connection of the arms5 with the body 1 is produced,preferably, by forming each of said arms with a plurality of coils 6 atthe point of its angle, said coils surrounding the band 3,,as shownclearly in Figs. 1 and 3. Theends of each of the arms 5 are bentrearwardly, as shown at 7, to preyent them from scratching the interiorof the coffee or tea pot.

Constructed as above described the method of using the improved devicewill be apparent from Figs. 2 and 3. The coffee or tea is placedinaperforate body 1 and said body is inserted into a coifee or tea pot,such as indicatedat 8, the angular arms 5 constituting means for spacingthe containing device properly in the center ofthe tea or coffee pot andfor holding it securely in position. As soon as the cofi'ee or tea hasbeen made the containing device is removed,together with the tea orcoffee dregs therein.

In view of the fact that the arms 5 are adapted to be bent readily toany desired angle, so as to render the same more acute or obtuse, theimproved containing device can be inserted into receptacles of differentdiameters,'the coils 6 at the point of the angle of each arm 5 servingto permit the arm to [be readily bent to a greater or less angle withoutdanger of breaking the same.

. Changes in the precise embodiment of invention illustrated anddescribed may be made within thescope of the following claims withoutdeparting from the spirit of the invention or sacrificing any of itsadvantages.

' Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- Fig.-2 1s a plan view of the improved device l. A containing devicecomprising a perforate body, a band surrounding said body about midwaythe-ends thereof, and a plurality of angular arms-formed intermediatetheir ends with coils" surrounding said band.

2. A containing device comprising a perforate body, a cap therefor, aretaining-band surrounding said body about midway the ends thereof, alink connecting the ends of said retaining-band, and a plurality ofangular arms having coils formed at the point of their anglessurrounding said retaining band, the ends of said arms being bent.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of twolwitnesses.

. GEORGE STEOK. v

Witnesses:

ED. HJONTRUD, G. A. BENSON.

